170 CAPE RACE TO CREW POINT. 



Lamalin ledges extend along the whole of this coast at a dis- 

 tance of 3 miles and less from it, and in bad weather the sea breaks 

 on all of them. 



No vessel should venture between these shoals without a local pilot, 

 and very few of the fishermen are trustworthy, as thej^ have a knowl- 

 edge only of the fishing banks frequented by them. 



Offer rock, with of fathoms water over it, lies with Bluff head 

 lighthouse bearing 355^^, distant 2^ miles. 



Western ground, a shoal of 4^ fathoms, bears 228°, distant 1^ 

 miles from Lamalin Shag rock. 



Clearing marks. — Chapeau rouge, well open southward of 

 Lamalin Shag rock, bearing 78°, leads southward of the ledges, and 

 the extreme of the land about Dantzic coves well open to the west- 

 ward of Crew point, bearing about 3°, leads westward of them. 



These marks clear all the shoals excepting Western ground and 

 Offer rock. Offer island open southward of Shag rock (point aux 

 Gauls), bearing 75°, leads southward of Western ground, and about 

 IJ miles northward of Offer rock. 



At night this coast should not be approached to a depth less than 

 40 fathoms. 



Bank. — At about 9 miles southward of Lamalin bay is a bank, 

 about 5 miles long, eastward and westward, and 2>^ miles broad, 

 within the 40-fathoni contour line, which has depths of from 29 

 fathoms on its southern edge to 36 fathoms at its northern end. over 

 stony bottom. 



